by Jeff Maisey | Oct 27, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The “music driven” production of Oliver Twist that partners Virginia Stage Company and the Governor’s School for the Arts is not to be confused with the familiar show Oliver. There’s more than one twist that turns this one away from the...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Picnic September 30 through October 16 Peninsula Community Theater This beautiful drama written by one of the world’s most admired playwrights takes place on Labor Day weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. One house belongs...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Twenty years ago, Jeffery Seneca starred in a college production of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.” This month, he’ll make his directorial debut at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach with the same show. “I think I’ve seen it now—both from...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III At the eerie border between this world and the next, wrapped within the blurry boundary that separates what’s natural from what’s not, traveling near the snow bound Scottish-English border in the uncommonly frigid winter of 2010, academic...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 2, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “I got wild in New York!” That’s almost the opening line of director Laley Lippard’s part of our recent conversation about Grounded, the last full run play of Virginia Stage Company’s current season. Lippard is not yet here, of course ─ she flies...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston I’ve always been deeply passionate about theater,” explains playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton during a recent phone call about her fascinating new play, The Hampton Years, which is being produced and presented by the Virginia Stage...
